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Land, Gender and Commons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Land, Gender and Commons

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-27
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  • Publisher: LIT Verlag

This book explores how the concept of the commons can be extended through feminist intersectional perspectives. With extensive case studies on the commoning of pastoralists in Ethiopia and Germany, Jill Philine Blau investigates how social categories of difference û especially gender and age - have a structuring effect on the commons, as well as how the commons can be understood more deeply through a broader understanding of reproductivity and care.

Arid Land Systems: Sciences and Societies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Arid Land Systems: Sciences and Societies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-19
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  • Publisher: MDPI

Understanding deserts and drylands is essential, as arid landscapes cover >40% of the Earth and are home to two billion people. Today's problematic environment–human interaction needs contemporary knowledge to address dryland complexity. Physical dimensions in arid zones—land systems, climate and hazards, ecology—are linked with social processes that directly impact drylands, such as land management, livelihoods, and development. The challenges require integrated research that identifies systemic drivers across global arid regions. Measurement and monitoring, field investigation, remote sensing, and data analysis are effective tools to investigate natural dynamics. Equally, inquiry int...

Social Sustainability, Power and Agriculture Value Chains
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Social Sustainability, Power and Agriculture Value Chains

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-01-01
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  • Publisher: LIT Verlag

This book addresses value chains and the closely related questions of sustainability, especially social sustainability, in the so called `sustainability turn' Smallholder vanilla producers in Madagascar, as a case, it places power relations at the center of production node analysis. Brilliantly navigating the complexities of such analysis. This ground-breaking work is accomplished through an elaborate qualitative-grounded-theory methodology. This book is useful for scholars looking to explore the links between value chains, social sustainability and feminist epistemologies.

Soziologie 3/2021
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 141

Soziologie 3/2021

Die »Soziologie« ist das Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS). Die Zeitschrift fördert die Diskussion über die Entwicklung des Fachs, informiert über die Einbindung der deutschen Soziologie in ihren europäischen und weltweiten Kontext und dient dem Informationsaustausch über die Arbeit in den Sektionen und Arbeitsgruppen innerhalb der DGS. Herausgegeben im Auftrag der DGS: Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker; Redaktion: Prof. Dr. Sylke Nissen und Dipl.-Pol. Karin Lange, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Soziologie.

Wörterbuch Land- und Rohstoffkonflikte
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 327

Wörterbuch Land- und Rohstoffkonflikte

Globale Transformationsprozesse wie steigende Rohstoff- und Nahrungsmittelpreise, die Finanzkrise und der Klimawandel haben seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Landnutzung und bei den Landbesitzverhältnissen beigetragen. Konflikte um Land und Rohstoffe stehen seit einigen Jahren im Fokus einer lebhaften wissenschaftlichen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Debatte und führen vielerorts - insbesondere im Globalen Süden - zu Protesten. Mit über 40 Essays von »Agrarbewegung« über »Land Grabbing« bis »Water Grabbing« präsentiert das kritische Handbuch zentrale Begriffe und Themen der Debatte und macht sie einer breiten Leser_innenschaft zugänglich.

Social Policy and Social Justice
  • Language: en

Social Policy and Social Justice

Providing the breadth of a standard text and the depth of a contributed volume, Social Policy and Social Justice: Meeting the Challenges of a Diverse Society is built on a clear, conceptual social justice framework and provides up-to-date analyses of contemporary social policy issues, written by experts in their particular areas of research and practice. The book uses case studies and rigorous analysis to explore the relationship of social policy to economic, social, and culture transformation and the ongoing conflict between universal and population-specific conceptions of social welfare. The third edition addresses recent dramatic changes in social policy. It includes an assessment of poli...

Tweets and the Streets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Tweets and the Streets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-30
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  • Publisher: Pluto Press

Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the "indignados" protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around "occupied" places such as Cairo's Tahrir Square or New York's Zuccotti Park. An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, Tweets and the Streets points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience.

The Managed Heart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

The Managed Heart

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a "gift exchange" of acts of emotion management. We bow to each other not simply from the waist, but from the heart. But what occurs when emotion work, feeling rules, and the gift of exchange are introduced into the public world of work? In search of the answer, Arlie Russell Hochsc...

The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Surveys the director's life and career with information on his films, key people in his life, technical information, themes, locations, and film theory.

Lands of the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Lands of the Future

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa, based on long-term field research, that vividly illustrate the struggles and strategies of those who face dispossession and also discredit ideological false modernist tropes like ‘backwardness’ and ‘primitiveness’.